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remember when everyone was excited about 76 LOL
also diablo 4 LOL
also starfield LOL
Well not too much for Starfield. Back when they announced it they were comments about how their engine isn't good enough to pull off the things they were promising. It's why I didn't pre-order it.
Starfield is the Song that Never Ends from Barney.
Monotonous, boring, annoying, loops back into itself, overstays its welcome, may potentially drive you insane with too much consistent exposure.
i expected bethesda graphics and gameplay, which were always meh after skyrim
what i didn't expect was the pointless boring in fact fucking tedious everything else involved in playing a video game-- wtf is this fetch quest about talking trees? go talk to this guy, and then go talk to that guy, and then and then and then-- what a fucking let-down.
don't worry i learned my lesson. i'll never buy another bethesda title unless a year has passed and it still has a minimum 'very positive' rating. maybe not even then. fuck bethesda
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Yes that is absolutely a valid way of approaching the problem although you do then sometimes run into the problem that the game you're trying to play is no longer supported (service been shut down left and right).
I also think it's a bit unnecessary, by all means play the classics if that's what you're into, but if you're doing it to save money, it's not as if there aren't high quality indie games being made right now, so it's not like you have to just play old games to be frugal.
Don't worry, I know of good new indie games, and I'm not playing those either.
i love indie games also-- in fact playing through hades 2 right now, which is hard to believe how awesome it is. other notable amazing titles include balatro, DRG (ROCK AND STONE), dead cells, delta V, dysmantle-- too many to name. so yea... i have no problem not buying a AAA game for $70+
I got it as soon as I got a GPU that could comfortably run it... because it was bundled with said GPU. I did activate the key but never bothered to actually install it. Maybe later in case the handful of modders actually make something cool in there.
I was kinda interested before launch, hoping that this would be the game to finally force them to meaningfully overhaul the engine they've been carrying around since Morrowind (with some bugs dating back to then). Of course it wasn't and of course they didn't.
Imagine needing reasons not to pre-order. I bet you pay more than €30 for games too...
Is that supposed to be some sort of personality failing?
Paying 60 dollars for modern shit AAA games is a personality failing in my book. As well as preordering any game.
Early access is borderline acceptable under certain conditions.
But I didn't pre-order it did I?
I'm really not sure what you're upset about.
Buying those games make the companies correct that gamers will buy any slop they serve.
That's why gaming today looks like it does. People put their money to the worst companies, rewarding their vile behaviour.
Diablo is a Blizzard IP
true, and fuck blizzard too
They weren't excited for Diablo 4 for the world and story, though.
I remember being excited for Diablo 3 💀
Ultima Online LOL
yes, as a huge ultima nerd, i was excited for UO. after spending hours barely being able to do anything because of my 386 PC and 14.4 dialup speed, and then getting killed because of all the lag and losing everything, i said i guess i don't have the money to play this game, and left it
but that wasn't bethesda-- still origin at that point
It ain't even Bethesda's now. EA bought them, not Bethesda, or ZeniMax, or Microsoft.
there was some point in the not too distant past where i said "ok, everything is bullshit now" and stopped paying attention. ultima is EA now? ok. fuck EA, and fuck ultima
Yep. And their management is ultimately what led Richard Garriot to quit.
corporate bullshit. same shit with ken and roberta williams of old school sierra
As a child their games where always too difficult for me, so I preferred Lucas Arts adventures but looking back at them now they had some real gems. Games with... soul
ah lucas arts-- both grim fandango and xwing will always occupy a place in my heart
UO was pretty popular and good up until EA bought Origin in 2004.